Growing up on the Gulf Coast, it wasn’t initially obvious to me that Southern rap didn’t get the respect it deserved. In ...

In 2026, Megadeth took their proverbial final bow with their 17th and ostensibly last studio album, simply titled Megadeth. It was a fitting poignant, metallic endnote to an illustrious career full of ...

In 1996, the Grammys handed out trophies to several rap artists. These are three rap Grammy Award winners from 1996 we still ...

Director Joanna Natasegara's doc starts off as a hip-hop Horatio Alger story, then focuses on the 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' album that sold as a single copy for $2M to the much-loathed Martin ...

Also: the many disciplines of Sudan Archives, a Max Ophüls retrospective, the facets of upstate cults, and more.

Joanna Natasegara discusses Sundance doc The Disciple, working with RZA and Cilvaringz to tell the story of Once Upon a Time ...

2025 wasn’t a one-sound year; it was a many-voices year in Hip-Hop albums, where street rap, art rap, introspection and legacy all shared the same space. This was the year Hip-Hop slowed down and ...

Kendrick Lamar has secured another major milestone as GNX is officially the most-streamed rap album on Spotify in 2025. The project amassed 2.98 billion streams, outperforming the next-closest release ...

I was made aware of the new 21 Savage album two weekends ago when a midsize Toyota pulled up to a Christmas tree lot pumping “Where You From,” the opening track on “What Happened to the Streets?,” now ...

Take a walk down memory lane — and try to quell your disbelief — with the following list of 40 classic rock and metal albums turning 40 in 2026. Nineteen eighty-six was a great time to be an ...

We’re back with another “worst of” list. On Monday, we picked the worst songs of the year. You’ll see some repeats here, but there are a few new entrants who made some woefully disappointing or ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...